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THOMAS IBANEZ





Post-doctoral Researcher



My research focuses on understanding the distribution of plants, plant associations, and diversity. I'm particularly interested in spatio-temporal dynamics of forests in response to natural or anthropogenic disturbances in tropical Pacific Islands. After six years in New Caledonia, I'm currently based at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo to study spatio-temporal variations in vegetation structure and composition of United States National Parks in Hawai`i and American Samoa. In collaboration with the National Park Service, I analyze data collected over the last ten years in the framework of the Pacific Island Inventory & Monitoring Network. I aim to help to identify conservation priorities to optimize management efforts facing global changes including global warming, alien species invasions or changes in disturbance regime.



Link to more publications on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Ibanez



RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Blanchard, G., Munoz, F., Ibanez, T., Hequet, V., Vandrot, H., Girardi, J., & Birnbaum, P. (2019). Regional rainfall and local topography jointly drive tree community assembly in lowland tropical forests of New Caledonia. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12781
  • Ibanez, T., Birnbaum, P., Gâteblé, G., Hequet, V., Isnard, S., Munzinger, J., … Jaffré, T. (2019). Twenty years after Jaffré et al. (1998), is the system of protected areas now adequate in New Caledonia? Biodiversity and Conservation, 28(1), 245–254. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1659-y
  • Ibanez, T., Hart, P., Ainsworth, A., Gross, J., & Monello, R. (2019). Factors associated with alien plant richness, cover and composition differ in tropical island forests. Diversity and Distributions. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12989
  • Ibanez, T., Keppel, G., Baider, C., Birkinshaw, C., Culmsee, H., Cordell, S., … Birnbaum, P. (2018). Regional forcing explains local species diversity and turnover on tropical islands. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(4), 474–486. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12712
  • Ibanez, T., Keppel, G., Menkes, C., Gillespie, T. W., Lengaigne, M., Mangeas, M., … Birnbaum, P. (2019). Globally consistent impact of tropical cyclones on the structure of tropical and subtropical forests. Journal of Ecology, 107(1), 279–292. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13039





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